RPGA Herald Test or SRD Wrong?

[hong]

Does anyone except the RPGA actually give a flying freck about the radius of illumination of a sunrod?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Does anyone except the RPGA actually give a flying freck about the radius of illumination of a sunrod?

... orcs waiting in ambush with their 60' darkvision?

-Hyp.

 

[Abraxas]

The other error I came across was the question regarding Tordek breaking through a "Simple Wooden Door," and hitting it for 12 damage with his axe.

Simple wooden doors have Hardness 5, 10 HP. Therefore, the door should have 3 hit points remaining.

According to the test, the answer was 8.

I thought the question asked how much damage Tordek would have to do to break the door after his first hit for 12? Since the door has hardness 5 and only 3 hit points left, Tordek would have to hit it for 8 to overcome the hardness and break the door.

 

[dvvega]

I think that the answer to the sunrod question is wrong even though it's an elf.

Low-Light Vision

Characters with low-light vision have eyes that are so sensitive to light that they can see twice as far as normal in dim light. Low-light vision is color vision. A spellcaster with low-light vision can read a scroll as long as even the tiniest candle flame is next to her as a source of light.

Characters with low-light vision can see outdoors on a moonlit night as well as they can during the day.

Low-light vision does not double any vision within bright light, only dim. So the sunrod would only grant an extra 30 feet to the elf due to the dim illumination area - total is 90 feet. Or am I missing something?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Low-light vision does not double any vision within bright light, only dim. So the sunrod would only grant an extra 30 feet to the elf due to the dim illumination area - total is 90 feet. Or am I missing something?

From the Vision and Light section, PHB p165:

Characters with low-light vision (elves, gnomes, and half-elves) can see objects twice as far away as the given radius. Double the effective radius of bright light and of shadowy illumination for such characters. For example, a torch provides bright illumination to a radius of 40 feet (rather than 20 feet) for a character with low-light vision, and it provides shadowy illumination to a radius of 80 feet (rather than 40 feet).

-Hyp.

 

[dvvega]

Right so by looking at the glossary I missed that section.

So in fact low-light vision is really not "low" light.

 

[WizarDru]

I thought the question asked how much damage Tordek would have to do to break the door after his first hit for 12? Since the door has hardness 5 and only 3 hit points left, Tordek would have to hit it for 8 to overcome the hardness and break the door.

That was the answer I came to, after a minute. Some of the questions could be worded a little better, and that was one of them. The one that gave me trouble was the "how much damage does Regdar do?" question, because for a while, I couldn't figure out why my total wasn't on the list of possible answers...until I remembered that he was wielding a two handed weapon, and that increased his multiplier for his strength bonus to 1.5.

Most of the questions, other than the Azer one, which still confuses me, were directly out of the SRD or books, such as determining the DC for Lidda on 2" wide ledge that was covered in ice. The Azer one also seems odd, since I didn't think the RPGA even let people take non-PHB races except under the most extreme of circumstances.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I thought the question asked how much damage Tordek would have to do to break the door after his first hit for 12? Since the door has hardness 5 and only 3 hit points left, Tordek would have to hit it for 8 to overcome the hardness and break the door.

Good catch. The correct answer - as you mentioned above - was the only one that mentioned damage Tordek needed to do, whereas the others all dealt with how many hit points the door had remaining.

Silly trick questions; silly me for falling for them.